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Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels
Jane Austen Her Life Her Times Her Novels Author:Janet Todd Over the past 200 years?although never more than in recent decades?Jane Austen's sharp and witty novels have delighted a diverse and devoted international readership. With scant information about her life available, fans have a bottomless hunger for details about the woman behind the work. Jane Austen feeds that appetite with background on her r... more »elationships with family and friends; on the contemporary attitudes that shaped Austen and her writing; and on the settings that inspired her and feature in her stories. Austenites will particularly treasure the 15 pieces of removable memorabilia, which include facsimiles of early manuscripts, a handwritten note outlining the profits from her novels, and a letter from Austen's father to the publisher Thomas Cadell that was returned with the words ?Rejected by return of post? written on it.« less